chap-book [f. chap in CHAPMAN + BOOK.] A modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant dealers or chapmen, consisting chiefly of small pamphlets of popular tales, ballads, tracts, etc. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition. Springfield MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1993. chap-man \'chap-m'n\ n [ME, fr. OE ceapman, fr. ceap trade + man -- more at CHEAP] (bef. 12c) 1 archaic : MERCHANT, TRADER 2 Brit : PEDDLER The Oxford English Dictionary [Compact Edition]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
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